The craven Craven today did his bit for the Australian Daily Zionist News, with an attack on Richard Flanagan, which coyly avoided tagging Flanagain as anti-Semitic by labelling his position on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank this way: In fairness to Flanagan’s positions, they may not be positively antisemitic. Instead, they may represent a different form of Jewish dismissal. This is asemitism.
Such a stupid man - he was never a passable academic - and that's as much as the pond will say, but here's the link for masochists ...
The novelist is a passable author, but as a cultural analyst he ranks well below most rugby league commentators.
Meanwhile, the propaganda side of the rag carried on, with the canny Cranston seeming to have taken over from Geoff Chalmers as head of the hit squad ...
The pond will list off the contributions for the pleasure of masochists not sated by the craven Craven:
Chalmers’ correction hits home: Treasury to answer for ‘rosy’ price forecasts
Former Treasury officials say the department’s predictions of the budget impact on property growth could have been nothing more than ‘guesses’, as the nation’s biggest bank downgrades its forecasts.
By Matthew Cranston and Lydia Lynch
Put it another way ...
Sorry vulgar youff.
But then the pond paused because a new name - or so it seemed to the pond - had joined the reptile hit squad ...
It was originally presented as COMMENTARY, later rebranded to ANALYSIS:
If Treasury’s assumptions are wrong, the budget CGT changes may produce very different outcomes from those the government promised.
The pond likes to encourage new members of the hit squad - anything to boost the lizard Oz gene pool - and did admire Frank's artwork, though it wondered yet again when Frank will stop taking credit for these visual monstrosities and let AI take the blame.
It's such crude propaganda, worthy of Der Stürmer...
Don't expect the pond to offer more, there's the link above for veteran masochists ...
As for Brycki, it was just another form of hustle, as the tag at the end of the piece revealed:
Chris Brycki is the founder and chief executive of online investment adviser Stockspot.
Yes, the reptiles had offered a rare treat to Brycki's business, a link outside the hive mind, an exceptional honour where punters might discover the joys of online investment advice:
We set up and manage your sharemarket portfolio to help you achieve your financial goals.
Nah, not really.
There could be found a note on the new member of the hit squad:
Want to build real wealth? Our free newsletter delivers investment strategies, smart superannuation tips, property insights, and the insider tactics wealthy Australians use to get richer. Sign up here.
Nah, even more not really.
And the pond thought replicating that "sign up here" link unwise, lest some innocence take the bait and waste their schekels on getting poorer.
If the hacks are so good at doing investments and getting richer, why are they trapped pandering to the hive mind?
The reptiles also remembered that there was an election coming in Victoria and Gina's pet needed another boost:
Cabinet documents have exposed a bitter internal Labor blame game over who kept Victoria’s secret $8bn rail levy hidden from the public for years.
By Anthony Galloway
Back on the extreme far right, Dame Slap was out and about, as is her wont on a Wednesday ...
Pauline Hanson and her party are shouting ‘last drinks’ to the notion our established parties can plough on with business as usual.
By Janet Albrechtsen
Columnist
It was a hearty - if unhealthy, in the manner of a reptile jumbo burger - mix of 18C hate (an ancient reptile whine), together with predictable guff featuring transphobia, Greenies fear and loathing, blather about the Reef, net zero, the Voice and a pro forma brand of black bashing as the triumphant conclusion.
Do the reptiles really think that blathering about international treaties, in the way that some rage at "cosmopolitanism", is going to have an impact over and above the daily realities of getting by?
Apparently so, because Dame Slap decided to join the Canavan "black coal batters" Caravan, and in the process pumped up Pauline:
Hanson and Canavan do us a great service in calling it out.
The pond had no time for it, what with other delights awaiting, and the pond still waiting for a reptile explanation of how climate change had nothing to do with the Nepal disaster ...
Besides, the pond had "Ned" to hand, but before being bored out of its gourd, the pond wanted to offer a little teaser, if only because the headline touched on another mad King Donald triumph ...
The header: US influence is the big absentee at this year’s Pacific forum; The fact is Australia’s neighbours do not fear disappointing Canberra in the way they fear disappointing Beijing.
The caption for the reptiles' nightmare: Anthony Albanese probably had high hopes to improve regional security at the 55th Pacific Islands Forum. Picture: AFP
It could be worse.
Imagine if the mad king actually took an active interest in the Pacific, as he's done with Venezuela, as noted by Paul Krugman ...
A scam that is both vile and deeply stupid
That noted, this should properly be the bromancer's turf, but if Aldi can make a living offering "lookalike" brands, so can the pond ...
Instead, the Prime Minister is scrambling to minimise the fallout of China’s payback after the 2022 PIF sidelined Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s general security proposal for the region.
Beijing had considerable grounds to think its interest in the region would be at risk again at this year’s forum. The forum’s host, Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr, planned to pursue a resolution denouncing the Chinese missile test that landed in the waters between Nauru, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu in July.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale wanted to secure a general regional security agreement that would have undermined elements of China’s bilateral security agreements while uniting much of Australia’s bilateral security agreements.
As an ally of Taiwan, Palau would be giving some prominence and access to Taipei, which China had undermined at the two preceding forums.
At this point the reptiles offered an audio distraction, but thought so little of it, it was just a one line link:
LISTEN NOW: Island meltdown: China’s massive blow-up rocks the Pacific
The pond made the error clicking on the link and found it was more of the usual, with the notion implicit that climate change had done nothing to harm island paradises ...
One of the chief pleasures of not offering reptile audio and AV distractions is not getting bogged down in desperate attempts to attract a wider audience ...
The hapless reptiles missed the boat yet again, what with the US fuss about Lindsay Clancy dominating the headlines, and wiser minds heeding the need to cut back, Too Much True Crime? It's Okay to Step Away ...
If you linger too long on the main page, you score that overriding pop up, but the pond wasn't tempted and headed back to the Pacific for the bad news ...
The first shock was the departure of Wale, who flew back to Honiara to deal with an unexpected leadership challenge from a cabinet colleague. Wale has pursued a new relationship with Canberra that has rolled back some of the gains China has made in Solomon Islands since the latter switched from diplomatic recognition of Taipei to Beijing in 2019.
It is difficult to believe the challenge to Wale’s leadership at home was not encouraged by the Chinese mission in Honiara, which maintains close links with the former government and its supporters. Other notable absentees in Koror include Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, Kiribati President Taneti Maamau, Samoan Prime Minister La’auli Leuatea Schmidt and Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Jotham Napat.
Each of these is significant in their own right, though for different reasons. Fiji is the hub of Pacific regionalism and the anchor for Australian-Pacific Islands security arrangements as demonstrated by the signing of the recent bilateral defence treaty. Kiribati also has close ties to China since switching recognition to Beijing in 2019 and has a proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent it from switching back to Taipei at any time in the future.
Former Samoan prime minister Fiame Mata’afa was instrumental at the 2022 forum in mothballing China’s regional security proposal. Yet La’auli has taken a softer line on China. Napat has curried favour with Beijing by watering down the on-again, off-again security agreement between Vanuatu and Australia.
With five key Pacific leaders absent, it’s doubtful any measures concerning China will be effectively pursued at Koror.
Chairman Xi's already copped a deserved pounding for the way he's hidden the disaster in Tibet, and here was more fear ...Australia’s neighbours do not fear disappointing Canberra in the way they fear disappointing Beijing and Xi Jinping. Picture: Vladimir Voronin
It was time for a final brief gobbet of fear...
The critical question is: Where is the great-power balance? The US, the other Pacific great power, is not only missing in action, it also is antagonising the region’s microstates.
The Trump administration has gloried in disrupting the rules-based order, celebrated the asymmetries of power politics and pursued policies that put at risk core regional aspirations such as the Paris Agreement’s climate commitments, regulation of deep seabed mining and environmental zones for fisheries protection.
China’s capacity to influence the region through subliminal fear is possible because there are no credible consequences. It is difficult for Canberra to be Washington’s deputy sheriff when no one believes there is a sheriff.
Richard Herr is a former honorary director and adjunct professorial fellow at the Centre for International and Regional Affairs at the University of Fiji.
And that was that, as the mad Sheriff disappeared into a cloud of puffery and smoke ... and the pond could reveal the reason it went there ... as the perfect segue to the immortal Rowe ...
Then it was time to bore off socks and stockings with a natter by "Ned"...
The header: How Howard’s realism rewrote the rules on borders; Border protection is the most singular defeat suffered by the progressive movement in this country over the past 30 years.
The caption for the allegedly period snap: An army helicopter being assembled on the tarmac of Christmas Island airport before assisting SAS soldiers heading out to MV Tampa in August 2001. Picture: News Corp.
The pond doesn't know why it bothers to stay loyal to "Ned", especially as he occasionally indulges in wayward triumphalism, as in Border protection is the most singular defeat suffered by the progressive movement in this country over the past 30 years.
John Howard was right and ahead of the game. All countries now want to control their borders. The nation is in his debt.
"Ned" usually wanders outside the hive mind to plagiarise the thoughts of others, but here he was in much the same turf, producing the usual sensation of weird déjà vu and deep ennui ... fo all five minutes of the read ...
The Howard government’s decision to deploy the military in August 2001 to stop the Tampa disembarking on Australian territory with more than 430 asylum-seekers became a global drama that polarised attitudes towards John Howard as prime minister.
The consequences of that event still resound in Australia and in other jurisdictions. It was driven by Howard’s conviction that the Tampa be denied by any means of executive power while his opponents invoked the moral and universal obligation on rich nations to welcome asylum-seekers arriving on their doorstep.
The politics of Tampa were primal and brutal. Australia was under virulent assault from global opinion makers. The risks Howard ran to impose his will were astonishing. At several points Howard could have been thwarted or defeated. In the cause of sovereignty he chose an extreme solution that came with a cost in humanitarian concern. At the time nobody foresaw the full legacy – that Howard would establish an iron law of Australian polity rejecting asylum-seekers arriving by boat and that, a generation later, this would be envied by many democratic nations.
Ultimately, the issue was settled by public opinion. Howard’s stand – the strong man as populist – was one of his most popular decisions as prime minister. When the Rudd-Gillard government tried to reverse Howard’s policy it was crushed by public hostility. When the Abbott government embraced Operation Sovereign Borders – to stop the boats – it championed the Howard precedent.
The pond should have also mentioned nausea at the triumphalism, though the point of "Ned's" natter is obscure.
Do the reptiles think this repeated wandering down memory lane will boost the beefy boofhead from down Goulburn way?
More to the point, it will surely boost Pauline as the strong woman as populist. Is that the hidden reptile agenda?... Australian SAS troops preparing to depart Christmas Island for MV Tampa. Picture: Megan Lewis
Does "Ned" have any doubt? Nah, he's in true blue, ridgy didge red-headed ranga turf ...
By 2001 asylum-seeker arrivals were part of a criminal and lucrative people-smuggling industry. In the previous three years more than 8000 people had arrived by boat. Papers were going back and forth from cabinet searching for an answer. Immigration minister Philip Ruddock told the author: “We were under attack from people-smugglers.”
When the Tampa sailed over the horizon it was a threat and an opportunity for Howard. Under captain Arne Rinnan, the Tampa had collected the asylum-seekers from a stricken boast and had set course for Indonesia. The flashpoint for the Howard government came when the asylum-seekers “threatened” the captain – in Rinnan’s words – demanded he change course to Christmas Island and entry to Australia, and warned they would jump overboard unless he complied.
“We couldn’t tolerate that,” Howard said. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet head Max Moore-Wilton said: “Australia had to draw the line as a nation.” Howard’s office chief, Arthur Sinodinos, said: “Ministers felt ‘if we cave in to this, how could we possibly explain it to the Australian people?’ ” Ruddock later told ministers there was intelligence that a pipeline of 10,000 people were waiting to come from Indonesia. The cabinet was rock solid – every senior minister was committed: Peter Costello, Alexander Downer, Peter Reith.
Denying landfall was filled with hazards. Howard was making up policy as he went: “I knew it was a risky decision.” What would happen to the asylum-seekers, already facing medical issues? The government tried to get Indonesia to accept the boat, but Jakarta shut its door. The captain, having initially followed instructions, finally decided to defy authorities and entered Australian waters.
A snap of the lying rodent interrupted the triumphalism ... John Howard announces SAS troops had taken control of the MV Tampa. Picture: News Corp
It was a minor pause, a little pandering to the heroic subverter of humanitarian care ...
Howard’s blood was now up. With the politics moving into hysterical mode, Howard defied the UNHCR and insisted that none of the Tampa people would land or be processed in Australia.
Yet he came to the brink of defeat in the courts. In a farcical situation, Federal Court judge Tony North, who had found against Howard in the waterfront case, now found against him in the Tampa case – a ruling that would have destroyed Howard’s entire position. On appeal, the government won 2-1 in the court. The upshot: the human rights lawyers had failed to stop the government.
Facing another crisis Howard and his ministers had to decide: If Australia was saying no, who in the world would take the Tampa boatpeople? After days of alarm and desperate diplomacy, the answer came: New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark took 150 and Nauru accepted 280, with Howard and Ruddock unveiling the Pacific Solution, a new legal and administrative model that said asylum-seekers could be sent to Pacific nations for processing.
While ALP leader Kim Beazley supported the deployment of the SAS, he opposed Howard’s Border Protection Bill. Explaining the supreme principle on which he acted, Howard told parliament: “Every nation has the right to effectively control its borders and to decide who comes here and under what circumstances, and Australia has no intention of surrendering or compromising that right.”
In his usual pompous, ponderous way, "Ned" embarked on a listicle ...
First, as an island continent Australia has a geographical advantage and a political expectation it will protect its borders, a situation few other nations enjoy. Second, the Tampa was not a rejection of refugees but an insistence that Australia would accept refugees only in an offshore program. In the decades before 2001 Australia had been generous in accepting more than 500,000 refugees including from all races – largely in offshore processing in co-operation with the UN – the core point being government control of the program.
It was the critics who said Australia must now accept the reality of global people movements and accept the arrival of asylum-seekers by boat who really aspired to a radical change in refugee policy, a change that Howard rejected.
The reptiles interrupted the listicle to call in the troops one more time ... Armed SAS troops head out on a barge to MV Tampa. Picture: Megan Lewis
... and then "Ned" maintained the ranga rage ...
Third, Tampa was a significant factor in Howard’s 2001 election win, notably when linked to the 9/11 terrorist attack on America. Howard agreed it was a “major issue” in the campaign that also saw Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party virtually obliterated. But the government warrants condemnation for the disreputable ploy of linking boatpeople with terrorists.
Fourth, many prominent critics accused Howard of racism and of regressing to an old-fashioned quasi-White Australia bias over the Tampa event, a claim confounded by the reality: safe borders created the conditions for an expanded offshore legal immigration intake. This was the chief and enduring public policy legacy.
The permanent migration intake increased from 74,000 to just under 160,000 while Howard was PM. During Howard’s first three years in office, net overseas migration averaged 86,000 annually, while in his final three years the average was 188,000 – an astonishing increase. The big lift came in the second half of the Howard era, after 2001, when immigration expanded rapidly with a marked boost in the nation’s racial and cultural diversity, with more Asian and more Muslim migrants.
This is fundamental to Howard’s legacy and was achieved with remarkably little political unrest about immigration policy. That many progressives still cannot concede this reality testifies to their inability to grasp the political dynamics of Tampa – it meant every PM had to master the people movement test and that border protection was the necessary (but no sufficient) condition for successful, expanding immigration.
Put it another way: those who think the lying rodent introduced a new level of fear of furriners, which has culminated in the perils of Pauline, can only stand back and admire the way that reptiles of the "Ned" kind blather about "successful, expanding immigration", when in reality there's now a canker in the core ...and every week reptiles of the Dame Groan kind rail at the disasters arising from immigration.
They can't even get their nonsense into some kind of order.
And so, in the absence of Wilcox, to end with the rare treat of a Golding, providing not just an analysis of the ranga, but also of "Ned" ...
The pond has long believed that the Dutch are a strange tribe - being in Nederland and being made to watch a sitcom and wonder why everybody else in the room was laughing was probably what did it - and as further evidence, Lubach has returned, and offers subtitles so that English speakers can enjoy this peculiar cult ...
Neddles: "...Howard would establish an iron law of Australian polity rejecting asylum-seekers arriving by boat ...".
ReplyDeleteBut he welcomed them if they came by plane and simply never left.
Now let me see: in 1981 Australia's population was 14,949,202 and in 2001 (ie two "decades") it was 18,769,249. It had increased by just on 3.8 million versus about 500,000 'immigrants'.
ReplyDeleteNow where did those 500,000 - who presumably all came by aeroplane since boats weren't allowed - come from ? And where did they go ? And how could they all afford the airfares ?
"... Lubach has returned, and offers subtitles..."
ReplyDeleteBut it seems that "holy sh*t" didn't need a subtitle.
Craven Cranven is... So prior 1949.... old enmities used to bash perceived dissenters.
ReplyDeleteDDGo; No results found for "asemitism"
Goog; 2 x actually sites with / about asemitism, then... funking Newscorpse...
"Richard Flanagan's dangerous idea is just a chilling form of denial
6 hours ago · Asemitism does not involve hating Jews, it just involves never being able to see them in any debate or controversy."
Which, as per usual, shows the corpse scribblers to be vampires... they cannot see their own reflection... "it just involves never being able to see them", which for Newscorpse vampires, works both ways. They can't see themselves, and the koolaid has blinded them to seeing the other. Musk no empathy springs to mind.
Bashing others instated of engaging...
"The craven Craven today did his bit for the Australian Daily Zionist News, with an attack on Richard Flanagan, which coyly avoided tagging Flanagain as anti-Semitic by labelling his position on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank this way:
CC; "in fairness to Flanagan’s positions, they may not be positively antisemitic. Instead, they may represent a different form of Jewish dismissal. This is asemitism.". FFS. Is Flanagan a jesuit?
“asemitism” Rather Than “anti-semitism” Prevails in Soviet Russia Study Establishes
June 7, 1949
“Asemitism” rather than “anti-Semitism” now prevails in Soviet Russia, according to a study published here today by the American Jewish league Against Communism. At the some time, the study claims that “anti-Semitism has been growing in Soviet Russia, particularly during the past year.”
“Asemitism” differs from “anti-Semitism” in that it is not aggressive, according to the study prepared by Gregor Aronson, former member of the Moscow Soviet who left Russia in 1922, after having been arrested by the Soviet authorities, “Asemitism is not Jew-hatred in the usual sense of the word; it is more complicated and completely psychological,” Mr. Aronson explains. “It seems to be characterized by indifference to the Jews and any matter in which they, as Jews, are involved.”
The study published under the title, “Soviet Russia and the Jews,” deals with the situation in Biro-Bidjan, with Soviet hostility to Zionism, with various aspects of Jewish life in the USSR from the communist revolution of 1917 to World War II and with the prospects of assimilation of Soviet Jewry.
https://www.jta.org/archive/asemitism-rather-than-anti-semitism-prevails-in-soviet-russia-study-establishes
Dig whistle craven purport places Flanagan as French Bishop...
"An Excerpt from “Jesuit Kaddish” by James Bernauer, S.J.
...
"The document, conserved in Maritain’s archives, was published only in 1992. De Lubac’s indictment of the French bishops is severe: he said they did not have a real sense of the Church’s independence, of its spiritual authority no matter who is in power; their involvement in administration led them to downplay their evangelical mission; they did not possess a good understanding of Christian doctrine, and thus were weak in their confrontation of Hitler’s propaganda; the Church had lost touch with its people, most of whom seemed to support the Resistance, while the bishops appeared to favor the Vichy government of Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain; finally, de Lubac charged that the bishops had tended to think of themselves as functionaries of the state rather than as exercising shared leadership in the international Catholic Church."
https://undpress.nd.edu/blog/2020/06/02/an-excerpt-from-jesuit-kaddish-by-james-bernauer-s-j/
Perhaps I have a touch of spring fever, but it seems to me that 'Ned' thinks he is channeling Thomas Babington Macaulay. The repeat picture of Winston and the two Peteys prompts
ReplyDeleteIn yon strait now the Tampa
Might well be stopped by me.
Now who will stand at either hand
And keep them out at sea?
For those who recall more versus, there is even a casting into the waters that might be wrought into the heroic narrative - adapted slightly, because, of course, Horatius himself jumped, rather than spin a story of others doing that.
"and ends up sinking into the sea with the torporific" 4AUKUS... "Each claim may be individually plausible. Collectively they are impossible."
ReplyDelete"The next question is how much of that output can realistically be allocated to a Western Pacific war."
From... long, logical, nuanced, details...
"Armed Madhouse – Can U.S. Submarines Defeat China?
Posted on September 1, 2026 by Haig Hovaness
...
"because the maintenance problem is both substantial and well documented. In April 2026, the Congressional Budget Office reported that the Navy possessed 48 nuclear-powered attack submarines. But 33 percent of the force was undergoing or awaiting maintenance. ..., the Navy could at best deploy 32 SSNs.... "But the concentration of older boats creates a block-aging problem: maintenance and retirement pressures are not distributed evenly across the nominal SSN inventory." ... "Those are separate discounts. At this stage, the important point is narrower: maintenance removes approximately one-third of the nominal SSN force before the requirements of a particular war have even been considered.
Deployable Is Not Deployed
"Our first discount reduced the nominal force of 48 attack submarines to approximately 32 potentially deployable boats. But “potentially deployable” is still a long way from “available for combat.” Submarines move through a force-generation cycle that alternates deployment with training, certification, intermediate maintenance, and crew recovery.
" GAO describes an 18-month operational cycle consisting of approximately 12 months of training and intermediate maintenance followed by a six-month deployment. A 30-day post-deployment stand-down extends the interval between complete cycles to approximately 19 months. " ... "
"The next question is how much of that output can realistically be allocated to a Western Pacific war." ...
"This exposes a common weakness in military force comparisons: asset double counting. One strategic argument counts the submarine force against China. Another counts essentially the same submarines against Russia. Others invoke them for carrier protection, intelligence, land attack, or hunting ballistic-missile submarines.
Each claim may be individually plausible. Collectively they are impossible.
[ Darwin to Taiwan 4,100kms. Darwin bombed 1st.] ... "Guam itself lies within range of Chinese conventional missile systems.
"The enemy therefore does not have to sink an SSN to reduce SSN combat power. Attacking or disrupting the system that rearms and regenerates submarines
"the U.S. submarine force is based far from the principal operating areas of a war with China. Guam provides the closest major American submarine base, approximately 1,500 nautical miles from Taiwan. Pearl Harbor is roughly 4,500 nautical miles from Taiwan, while submarines departing San Diego face a journey of approximately 6,500 nautical miles."
"Once a submarine requires additional torpedoes, nuclear endurance no longer solves the problem. Under current practice, Mk 48 replenishment requires the submarine to withdraw from patrol to a suitable pier or submarine tender where weapons can be loaded. Combat power then depends upon three assets being brought together: the submarine, replacement weapons, and a facility capable of transferring them."
...
"These silent assumptions about the Navy’s silent service should be critically questioned."
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/09/coffee-break-armed-madhouse-can-u-s-submarines-defeat-china.html
Lose the rigged court case, arrest your way to compliance and sweep genocide under the rug...
ReplyDeleteCraig Murray
@CraigMurrayOrg
In case anyone had any remaining illusions the UK is a democracy. It is a zionist highly authoritarian state.
Defend Our Juries
@DefendOurJuries
DAWN RAIDS Dozens of peaceful activists are having their homes raided by counter-terrorism police for campaigning to lift the ban on Palestine Action. Police have been witnessed removing items such as Palestine flags, posters, technology/phones and even bracelets!
"Defend Our Juries
@DefendOurJuries
DAWN RAIDS Dozens of peaceful activists are having their homes raided by counter-terrorism police for campaigning to lift the ban on Palestine Action. Police have been witnessed removing items such as Palestine flags, posters, technology/phones and even bracelets!"
""... the right to speak out on the British state’s partnership in Israel’s genocide – was almost entirely ignored by the establishment media." ... "The whole speech is a masterclass in how to speak over the head of a complicit judiciary and prick the conscience of people who still have a moral backbone. I recommend you read it in full here."
https://loonpond.blogspot.com/2026/09/in-which-much-distracts-pond-before.html?showComment=1788239223582&m=1#c1612211407919688739